| The second round of the 2000/01 "Clubmans series" (1/12th scale) took place over the weekend of 18th/ 19th November 2000 at Teesside's carpet track at "The warehouse". | |
| The Saturday track was a tight twisty circuit more reminiscent of an off-road track than a 12th track. There were 5 heats of 12th cars and a heat each of Eurocars/Hot Rods and Scale Saloons. The turn out from the club was rather pitiful. Only 4 (reducing to 3 due to illness) people had turned out. Hopefully Sunday would be better. Pictures |
| The format this season is 3 rounds of qualifying followed by 2 legged finals, both counting. This was new to me and meant that all rounds counted in some way. In the finals there is no room for error, a bad run in one round virtually ruins your chances and I can see little advantage over 1 legged finals. At least with 3 legged finals there is a bit more latitude. | | The event was being run by the BRCA 12th section, not the club. The Plimmers were on duty for the first time this season, just back from New Zealand. |
Andy Moore took a dominant FTQ with 41/491.84 from Phil Davies on 40/493.39 and Keith Robertson on 30/484.25.
Local driver (and track designer) Chris Clark just managed the A-final after being dogged by "interference" stemming from a possible faulty receiver. | Hot rod TQ went to Steve Taylor 23/487.98 from Sol Dee 23/493.03 and Helen Wrightson 22/495.23. V6 Eurocars TQ was Alastair Needham on 30/495.83 from Michael Wrightson 29/499.17. | Peter Craig took TQ in Saloons 22/311.43 from Richard Norris 21/306.75. Liam Davies was having problems on 17/313.18 and decided to try something new for Sunday. |